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...produced by Paul Feigay & Oliver Smith) takes a cockeyed look, through purple-colored glasses, at the fantastic '20s. In a swirl of burlesque it lurches through speakeasies, totters through dance marathons, plugs racketeers, pummels gold diggers, plays hob with billionaires. Almost all of it is bold and un-Broadwayish, and bits and pieces of it are delightful. But as a whole, it doesn't quite come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Oklahoma! Mint-fresh, clover-sweet folk musical with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Oklahoma! Fresh-as-mint folk musical, with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and warm Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years). In 1927 she married Col. Lytton Gray Ament, introduced to her by Queen Marie of Rumania, honeymooned with him as the Queen's guest, divorced him last May for mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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